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...let us for now pass over these, and explain other errors regarding this article. The first of these is that of Cerinthus and Ebion, and also the Nazarenes, who said the grace of Christ does not suffice for salvation unless one keeps circumcision and other precepts of the Law. Against whom it is said in Romans 3: "We hold that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law."
Donatists
The second is the error of the Donatists, who posited that the grace of Christ remained only in Africa, because the entire rest of the world communicated with Caecilian, the bishop of Carthage, whom they condemned, and by this, they denied the unity of the Church. Against them, it is said in Colossians 3: "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all." The third is the error of the Pelagians, who, first, denied that original sin exists in infants, against that which the Apostle says in Romans 5: "By one man sin entered into the world." And in the Psalm it is said: "Behold, I was conceived in iniquities." Secondly, they say that the beginning of a good work exists in man by himself, but the completion is from God, against that which the Apostle says in Philippians 2: "It is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." Thirdly, they say that grace is given to men according to their merits, against that which the Apostle says in Romans 11: "And if by grace, then it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace."
Origenes
The fourth error is that of Origen, who posited that all souls were created simultaneously with the angels, and because of the diversity of what they did there, some men were called by God through grace, and others He left in infidelity, against which the Apostle says in Romans 9: "For when they were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil..."